VU/VUmc OA-deals: Publishing OA free of charge or with an APC discount

To encourage VU and VUmc researchers to publish in Open Access the University Library has made OA arrangements with a number of major publishers thus enabling VU and VUmc scientists to publish their articles OA free of charge (100% APC discount) or with an APC discount (e.g. 15% APC discount) in high quality journals. APC stands for article processing charge. Currently more than 8,000 journals are included in the OA-arrangements, of which more than 4,000 titles have an impact factor with more than 1,000 in the 1st quartile.

Overview of VU/VUmc OA-deals
Below you find an Overview of VU/VUmc OA deals with publishers. Underneath this overview you find concise information about the terms and workflow per publisher.
Details on all conditions per journal can be found in this list.

VU Journal Publishing Guide
Check in the VU Journal Publishing Guide if the journal of your choice allows Open Access publishing/ if there is an OA-deal.

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Corresponding authors of VU and VUmc can publish Open Access free of charge in 57 ACS journals . This does not include the ACS Central Science en ACS Omega journals. Authors wil automatically receive an ACS Author Choice Open Access License.after acceptance of their manuscript. VU and VUmc employees are recognized based on their VU or VUmc e-mail address at submission.

Biomed Central
A discount of 15% is available for BioMed Central and Springer Open article-processing charges (APCs) for all VU and VUmc staff. If you submit your manuscript from an IP address at the VU or VUmc the membership discount will be automatically applied. If you submit your manuscript using a non-registered IP address you should choose the option “I believe that I am covered by an institutional membership arrangement” and select your institution from the drop-down list on the APC agreement page. More information can be found on the BioMed Central website .

Brill
The VSNU has reached an agreement with Brill on publishing in Open Access. Corresponding authors from the VU and VUmc can publish Open Access free of charge in 40 journals of Brill in International Law and International Relations. You can state your eligibility and request an Open Access publication during submission in one of the forty selected journals. Please note, for technical reasons, you will not receive confirmation that the costs are waived. More information about the procedure can be found on the Brill website .

British Medical Journal / BMJ Journals
A discount of 25% is available for article-processing charges (APCs) in all BMJ journals for VU and VUmc staff. During submission, you will be recognized as a corresponding author of VU and/or VUmc by your institutional e-mail address.

Cogitatio Press
Researchers of the VU and VUmc can now publish Open Access free of charge in the journals published by Cogitatio Press , an open access, academic publisher specialized in peer-reviewed journals. Cogitatio publishes four journals, Media and Communication , Politics and Governance , Social Inclusion and Urban Planning . VU and VUmc employees are recognized based on their VU or VUmc e-mail address at submission and will receive confirmation that the fee is paid by the institution.

Cambridge University Press
Researchers of the VU and VUmc can publish open access in 339 hybrid and 17 open access journals of Cambridge University Press.
The APC is waived after the corresponding author indicates his/her affiliation after acceptance. An ‘Apply Discount’ button will appear by which the OA procedure is confirmed. The agreement is valid from 1 June 2017 until 1 June 2020.

Elsevier
On behalf of the Dutch Universities, the VSNU has reached an agreement with Elsevier allowing Open Access publication free of charge in a selection of their journals . When submitting a manuscript, VU and VUmc employees can indicate their affiliation with a Dutch University and select an Open Access license from a list. VU/VUmc have a preference for the CC-BY 4.0 license. After this Article Processing Charges (APC’s) are covered.

Emerald
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has reached an agreement with publisher Emerald about pre-paid institutional APC vouchers. Included in this deal are 30 vouchers in 2017 and 45 in 2018. If all vouchers for the current year are used, Emerald will place an announcement on its website.

Corresponding authors of the VU and VUmc should select the ‘my institution is elligible for a prepaid APC voucher’ option on the Emerald APC webpage during submission. If the article is accepted you will be sent an e-mail confirming the availability of the free voucher. After completing and signing the CC-BY license, the article is published Open Access. Read more on Emerald’s Open Access workflow here .

Frontiers
All researchers affiliated with the VU and the VUmc can publish free of charge in 59 full open access Frontiers journals from 1 January 2018.
The corresponding author can select the relevant institution 'VU University Amsterdam' or 'VU Medical Center' during submission of the manuscript from a drop-down box. Please note that this applies to items that have been submitted since 1 January 2018. All costs for the publication are paid by the library.

Karger
Corresponding authors of VU and VUmc can publish Open Access free of charge in 97 Karger journals . The authors must provide a cover letter at submission referring to their authorized status.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins MDPI Corresponding authors of VU and VUmc can publish in Open Access free of charge in 228 hybride Lippincott Williams & Wilkins journals. Full Open Access journals are excluded from this deal. Please contact openaccess.ub@vu.nl to apply for a ‘waiver code’ once your article is accepted for publication.

MDPI
The University Library has signed an agreement with Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Corresponding authors associated with the VU and VUmc will receive a 25% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Open Access publications. VU/VUmc employees are recognized on the basis of domain and IP address. The agreement is valid from 1 August 2016 until 31 July 2018.

Royal Society of Chemistry
No open access agreement 2018: The deal with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has ended on 31 December 2017. For 2018 negotiations are going on. RSC has suspended the discount and the deals for open access free of charge with the universities of Eindhoven, Delft and Leiden. Dutch researchers of all universities have to pay the full open access amount (APC) until an agreement is reached on this point. It is uncertain when that will be.

SAGE
Corresponding authors of VU and VUmc can publish in Open Access free of charge in 900 journals published by SAGE. This deal is valid from 2017 to 2019.

During submission, you will be recognized as a corresponding author of VU and/or VUmc by your institutional e-mail address. It is therefore important to use the e-mail address of your institution on submission of your manuscript. The publisher will send you a personal message with a request to fill out a form and send it by return mail. The article is made Open Access without cost if SAGE receives the form in a timely manner. Articles cannot be made Open Access after publication.

Springer
Corresponding authors of VU and VUmc can publish in Open Access free of charge in ca. 1.700 journals in the Springer Open Choice program .
If your article is accepted for publication you will be asked to confirm your affiliation (VU University Amsterdam / VU University Medical Center) in the “Special Affiliation” drop-down menu and to agree to the open access copyright and license terms. More information can be found on the Springer website .
Not eligible for this arrangement are the titles of Learned Societies, BioMed Central and Springer Open . The journals from the Springer Open and BioMedCentral program are eligible for a 15% discount. For more information, see also BioMedCentral on this page.

Taylor & Francis en Routledge
Corresponding authors of VU and VUmc can publish in Open Access free of charge in ca. 2300 journals published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
During submission, you will be recognized as a corresponding author of VU and/or VUmc by your institutional e-mail address. It is therefore important to use the e-mail address of your institution on submission of your manuscript. You will receive an e-mail once your article has been accepted for publication with confirmation that the costs will be paid by the VSNU agreement. empty More information can be found on the Taylor & Francis website .

Walter de Gruyter
Corresponding authors of VU and VUmc can publish Open Access free of charge in hybrid journals of Walter de Gruyter. This does not include full Open Access journals. The agreement applies only to journals the VU University Library subscribed to. VU and VUmc employees are recognized based on their VU or VUmc e-mail address at submission.

Additionally VU- and VUmc-employees receive a discount of 20% on the publication costs when publishing in Open Access in one of the more than 500 full Open Access journals in the‘De Gruyter Open Access Institutional Member Scheme’. The discount also applies to book chapters and book series.

Wiley
Corresponding authors of VU and VUmc can publish in Open Access free of charge in 1400 journals published by Wiley. This deal is valid from 2017 to 2018.

Once your article is accepted for publication you can fill out the ‘OnlineOpen’ form on the Wiley author services page and select VU or VUmc under Funder/Institution Payment. Once your eligibility has been verified, your institution will cover the article publication charge and the article will be made Open Access immediately on publication.
Please note! Wiley also publishes a number of full Open Access journals that are not covered by this deal. More information about the procedure and journal titles can be found on the Wiley website.

The University Library has formed an "Open Access team" that organizes various activities related to Open Access. If you have questions about the above or any other questions regarding Open Access, please contact the Open Access team via openaccess.ub@vu.nl